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University of Kentucky
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The University of Kentucky is a public co-educational university in Lexington, Kentucky. S. The institution comprises 16 colleges, a school,93 undergraduate programs,99 master programs,66 doctoral programs. The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus, young Library, a federal depository, hosting subjects related to social sciences, humanities, and life sciences collections. In recent years, the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research, the directive mandated that the university become a Top 20 public research institution, in terms of an overall ranking to be determined by the university itself, by the year 2020. Courses were offered at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate, three years later, James Kennedy Patterson became the first president of the land-grant university and the first degree was awarded. In 1876, the university began to offer degree programs. Two years later, A&M separated from Kentucky University, which is now Transylvania University, for the new school, Lexington donated a 52-acre park and fair ground, which became the core of UKs present campus. A&M was initially a male-only institution, but began to admit women in 1880, in 1892, the official colors of the university, royal blue and white, were adopted. An earlier color set, blue and light yellow, was adopted earlier at a Kentucky-Centre College football game on December 19,1891, the particular hue of blue was determined from a necktie, which was used to demonstrate the color of royal blue. On February 15,1882, Administration Building was the first building of three completed on the present campus, three years later, the college formed the Agricultural Experiment Station, which researches issues relating to agribusiness, food processing, nutrition, water and soil resources and the environment. This was followed up by the creation of the universitys Agricultural Extension Service in 1910, the extension service became a model of the federally mandated programs that were required beginning in 1914. Patterson Hall, the schools first womens dormitory, was constructed in 1904, residents had to cross a swampy depression, where the Student Center now stands, to reach central campus. Four years later, the name was changed to the State University, Lexington, Kentucky upon reaching university status. The university led to the creation of the College of Home Economics in 1916, the College of Commerce was established in 1925, known today as the Gatton College of Business and Economics. In 1929, Memorial Hall was completed, dedicated to the 2,756 Kentuckians who died in World War I and this was followed up by the new King Library, which opened in 1931 and was named for a long-time library director, Margaret I. The universitys graduate and professional programs became racially integrated in 1949 when Lyman T. Johnson, African Americans would not be allowed to attend as undergraduates until 1954, following the US Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision. In 1939, Governor Happy Chandler appointed the first woman trustee on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees and she served from 1939 to 1960. In 1962, Blazer Hall was opened as the Georgia M Blazer Hall for Women in tribute to her years of service as a University of Kentucky trustee

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Kroger Field
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The stadium, named for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, opened in 1973 to replace the smaller Stoll Field/McLean Stadium. The field is named C. M. Newton Field in honor of retired UK athletic director, built in 1973, it is the newest football stadium in the Southeastern Conference, as measured by date of original construction. The original capacity for the stadium was 57,800, in 1999 both ends of the stadium were enclosed and 40 suites were added,10 in each corner of the stadium, resulting in a symmetrical oval bowl seating 67,530. The total cost of the expansion was $27.6 million, seating adjustments over the next decade brought capacity to 67,942. During the 1999 season, Kentuckys average home attendance for games was 67,756. Attendance for the game against Tennessee that year was 71,022, since 1999, fireworks have been shot from atop the suites when the Wildcats take the field, as well as after every Wildcat score and win. In July 2011, the University of Kentucky announced a massive audio and these upgrades include two LED video boards each measuring approximately 37 feet high by 80 feet wide, making each display the 20th-largest scoreboard in the country. Combined, the 5,920 square feet will make the new video boards one of the largest scoreboard systems in the country, additionally, a new custom audio system and over 1,800 linear sq/ft of video ribbon board will be implemented by September 10,2011. The approximate cost of the upgrades total close to $6 million, the stadium recently underwent a $110 million renovation. The renovation includes a new box, loge box seats, club seats, recruiting room, suites, concourses, bathrooms, lights. The project was completed before the start of the 2015 season and it is particularly referred to as The New Commonwealth Stadium

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Kentucky Wildcats football
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The Kentucky Wildcats football program represents the University of Kentucky in the sport of American football. The Wildcats compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, until about 1913, the modern University of Kentucky was referred to as Kentucky State College and nearby Transylvania University was known as Kentucky University. In 1880, Kentucky University and Centre College played the first intercollegiate game in Kentucky. Kentucky State first fielded a team in 1881, playing three games against rival Kentucky University. The team was revived in 1891, both the inaugural 1881 squad and the revived 1891 squad have unknown coaches according to university records in winning two games and losing three. The 1891 teams colors were blue and light yellow, decided before the Centre–Kentucky game on December 19, a student asked What color blue. And varsity letterman Richard C. Stoll pulled off his necktie and this is still held as the origin of Kentuckys shade of blue. The next year light yellow was dropped and changed to white, the 1892 team was coached by A. M. Miller, and went 2–4–1. The greatest UK team of this era was the 1898 squad, to this day, the Immortals remain the only undefeated, untied, and unscored upon team in UK football history. The Immortals were coached by W. R. Bass and ended the year a perfect 7–0–0, head coach Jack Wright led the team to a 7–1 record in 1903, losing only to rival and southern champion Kentucky University. Fred Schacht posted a 15–4–1 record in two seasons but died unexpectedly after his second season, J. White Guyn also had success leading the Wildcats, posting a 17–7–1 record in his three years. Edwin Sweetland went 16–3 in three seasons but resigned due to poor health, Sweetland also served as Kentuckys first athletics director. The 1909 team upset the Illinois Fighting Illini, upon their welcome home, Philip Carbusier said that they had fought like wildcats, a nickname that stuck. John J. Tigert coached Kentucky for two seasons with each season having one loss, the 1916 team fought the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association co-champion Tennessee Volunteers to a scoreless tie. The years only a loss,45 to 0 to the Irby Curry-led Vanderbilt Commodores, was the dedication of Stoll Field, quarterbacks Curry and Kentuckys Doc Rodes were both selected All-Southern at years end. Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin stated If you would give me Doc Rodes, Coach Harry Gamage had a 32–25–5 record during his seven seasons from 1927 to 1933. A. D. Kirwan, who would go on to be the president of the university, coached the Wildcats from 1938 to 1944, longtime athletics director Bernie Shively also served as Kentuckys head football coach for the 1945 season. Coach Paul Bear Bryant was Kentuckys head football coach for eight seasons, Bear Bryant came to Kentucky from Maryland

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Battle for the Beer Barrel
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Kentucky and Tennessee have faced off on the gridiron since 1893, making it one of the oldest rivalries in major college football. It was close in the years, with Kentucky holding a series lead after the first 22 match-ups. But since the early 1930s, Tennessee has dominated the cross-border rivalry, both schools were charter members of the Southeastern Conference when it was established in 1932. Since that season, Tennessee has a 53–14–3 record against Kentucky, including a streak of 26 straight victories from 1985 to 2010, the Wildcats did not win any games against the Volunteers during the 1940s, 1990s, or 2000s. The only decade of the SEC era in which UK posted a record against Tennessee was the 1950s. The series was not without disappointment even during that period for Kentucky fans, however, the Kentucky–Tennessee game once involved a trophy, a wooden beer barrel painted half blue and half orange which was awarded to the winner of the game every year from 1925 to 1997. The Barrel was introduced in 1925 by a group of former Kentucky students who wanted to create a sign of their schools supremacy in the rivalry. It was rolled onto the field that year with the words Ice Water painted on it to avoid any outcries over an alcohol drum symbolizing a college rivalry during the Prohibition era. While the trophy was awarded to the games winner each year. Tennessee lost to Kentucky in 1953, but several orange-clad students keg-napped the barrel, the barrel theft set in motion a series of additional pranks over the next few years between students of the two schools, but the barrel was not involved. Vanderbilt University students stole the keg from Kentucky in 1960 to rally support from cross-state UT students in a basketball game against Kentucky. The Commodores lost the game and returned the trophy months later, a fatal alcohol-related car crash involving two UK football players a week before the 1998 contest prompted the end of the barrel exchange. Kentucky athletic director C. M. Newton expressed the idea that the use of an alcohol container as a trophy would be inappropriate under the circumstances. The ceremony was cancelled for the 1998 game, and the two mutually agreed to permanently discontinue the tradition before the 1999 game. The actual barrel was in UTs possession when the schools ended the exchange and it has not been displayed since 1997, and it was not transferred to Kentucky when the Wildcats broke the Volunteers long series winning streak in 2011. 1950, The Vols handed #3 Kentucky, coached by Bear Bryant, Tennessee went on and defeated #2 Texas in the Cotton Bowl Classic 20–14 en route to an 11–1 record, and Kentucky defeated Oklahoma 13–7 in Sugar Bowl to win the National championship. 2007, Tennessee came to Lexington looking to clinch the SEC East, Kentucky cane in with one of its strongest teams in years behind star QB Andre Woodson and a huge upset over then-ranked #1 LSU now looking to end the 22-game losing streak to the Volunteers. The game becomes a fierce, nail-biting, overtime thriller as Woodson fights to end Kentuckys misery against Tennessee, in the second overtime Tennessee fails to score giving Kentucky a chance to finally end the streak, but the ensuing field goal is blocked

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Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS football programs were members of this conference at some point, the SIAA was founded on December 21,1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt, at the Kimball House in Atlanta. Dudley was a member of the Vanderbilt Athletic Association, formed in 1886 with Dr. W. M. Baskerville as president, most students at Vanderbilt were members. The early sports played on the Vanderbilt campus were baseball, bicycling, Dudley was primarily responsible for the formation of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Sewanees opposition stopped it from occurring, the original members were Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Johns Hopkins, North Carolina, Sewanee, Vanderbilt, and Virginia. Virginia and North Carolina soon dropped before the inaugural 1895 season, the conference was originally formed for the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South. In 1903, a single-game football playoff occurred, but it seems to have been coordinated more so by the two competing schools than the conference itself, several other efforts over the years by individual schools to hold a conference title game fell through. Most SIAA titles claimed by schools in sports were actually more mythical in nature than officially sanctioned by the league. In 1915, a disagreement arose within the conference regarding the eligibility of freshman athletes, generally, the larger universities opposed the eligibility of freshman players, while the smaller schools favored it. As a result, some of the universities formed the Southern Intercollegiate Conference. At the conferences annual meeting on December 10,1920, the SIAA rejected proposals to ban freshman athletes, in protest, some schools that had voted in favor of the propositions immediately announced they would seek to form a new conference. In 1922, the Southern Conference underwent an expansion and added six more members, all at the expense of the SIAA, Florida, Louisiana State, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. With the departure of most of the colleges, the SIAA became a de facto small college conference in 1923. In the 1920s and 1930s, the SIAA increased its membership with the addition of additional small universities. The conference eventually disbanded in 1942 with the onset of American involvement in World War II, original charter members are denoted in boldface. Invited charter members are denoted with an asterisk, in the era in which the SIAA operated, teams tended to join in December, therefore, the first year of conference play in a given sport was often the following calendar year. Conference affiliations reflect those for the 2016–17 school year

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Kentucky Wildcats
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The Kentucky Wildcats are the mens and womens intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky, a founding member of the Southeastern Conference. Historically, the teams and athletes were referred to as the Lady Kats. Collectively, the fans of the Kentucky Wildcats are often referred to as the Big Blue Nation, the nickname Wildcats became synonymous with UK shortly after a 6–2 football road victory over Illinois on October 9,1909. Later the name Wildcats became more and more popular among UK followers as well as members of the media. As a result, the nickname was adopted by the university, the university adopted blue and white as its official colors in 1892. Originally, however, UK students had decided on blue and light yellow prior to the Kentucky-Centre College football game on December 19,1887, the shade of blue, which is close to a royal blue, was chosen when a student asked the question, What color blue. At the time, Richard C. Stoll pulled off his necktie, the students then adopted that particular shade of blue. A year later, UK students officially dropped the light yellow color for white because the two colors did not look good together, UK has won 11 national championships with its latest being crowned on April 2,2012 by the mens basketball team. UK also boasts the 1988 Womens Cross County national championship,2011 rifle, UK was also crowned an NCAA co-champion, after knocking off #1 Oklahoma in the 1951 Sugar Bowl to win the 1950 National Championship in college football. Beginning in the 1890s, students at the University of Kentucky started scheduling football games with neighboring colleges, the basketball program began on campus in 1902, originally as a womens sport, a mens team was added one year later. Several decades later, in 1930, then-high school coach Adolph Rupp was hired as a coach for the university. During his tenure, he led the Kentucky Wildcats to four NCAA crowns in 1948,1949,1951 and 1958. The Wildcats later won a championship under Joe B. Hall in 1978, another in 1996 under Rick Pitino, in 1998 under Orlando Tubby Smith. Calipari has been the coach since the 2009–10 season, in 2007, the university unveiled the Joe Craft Center, a $30 million state-of-the-art basketball practice facility for both the mens and womens teams. Considered to be an elite NCAA basketball program, the University of Kentucky mens basketball team is the winningest program in the history of college basketball, the team was the first ever Division I squad to reach 2,000 victories after defeating Drexel University on December 21,2009. Kentucky also leads all NCAA schools in all-time winning percentage with an record of 2111–661. The mens team has earned a total of eight NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championships, second only to UCLAs eleven championships. UKs eight championships were won by five different coaches – Adolph Rupp in 1948,1949,1951 and 1958, Joe B. Hall in 1978, Rick Pitino in 1996, Tubby Smith in 1998, the Wildcats also won two NIT Championships in 1946 and 1976

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1900 Auburn Tigers football team
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The 1900 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers 9th overall season and they competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the team was led by head coach Walter H. Watkins, in his first year, and finished with a record of four wins and zero losses. Source,1900 Auburn football schedule Auburn opened the season against the University of Nashville, On a wet and heavy field, Auburn beat the Tennessee Volunteers 23–0. Auburn easily defeated the Alabama team 53–5, auburns Yarborough scored 3 touchdowns, once on a run of 75 yards. Noll scored twice, once on a run of 55 yards, to close the season, Auburn defeated rival Georgia 44–0

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Stoll Field/McLean Stadium
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Stoll Field/McLean Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It was the home of the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team, the field has been in use since 1880, but the concrete stands were opened in October 1916, and closed following the 1972 season, and was replaced by Commonwealth Stadium. Memorial Coliseum is located across the street from the site, the stadium was a two-sided concrete structure, with bleachers in both endzones. It was named for Judge Richard C, the stadium was the home of the Wildcats during the Bear Bryant era, which included the teams first bowl appearance, and their first Southeastern Conference football championship. Bryants coaching tenure at the predominantly basketball-savvy school is regarded as the best era in UKs football history and it is the site of the first recorded football game played in the South. A historic marker was erected in 2008 and reads – Side 1 – STOLL FIELD and it was dedicated in 1916 at the Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt game and was named in honor of alumnus and long-term Board of Trustees member Judge Richard C. Stoll. The field was the setting of early games and an integral part of student life. Side 2 – MCLEAN STADIUM This field, which once pastured President Pattersons cows, was used for training during World War I. It was named for Price McLean, a student who was fatally injured in a football game in 1923. McLean Stadium was the site of Kentucky football games until they were moved to Commonwealth Stadium in 1973, on that first game in 1880 which Transylvania University won over Centre College 13¾–0. The two teams met in a cow pasture, belong to Hubert McGoodwin near Lexington, the present site of the University of Kentuckys Stoll Field, there were fifteen players on each team and a player once injured or removed for other reasons could not re-enter the game. At the end of much scuffling and butting of scholarly foreheads, the team members were older men, a good many of them having whiskers. And they wore extremely heavy shoes and heavily padded apparel, McLean Stadium was the site of the first football game of the newly formed SEC on September 30,1933, in which Kentucky defeated Sewanee 7–0. The final Kentucky game played at the stadium was on November 11,1972, the final overall games were the 1972 Class A and AA KHSAA State Championships, played on November 24. Trigg County defeated Pikeville 22−0 in the Class A final, while Tates Creek won the Class AA final over Ashland, the stadium was razed during the 1970s, the south end being replaced with the Singletary Center for the Arts. A field was installed in the end, perpendicular to the old end zone. It is still the practice field for the UK marching band, a short history of Stoll Field/McLean Stadium

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Wildcat Marching Band
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The Wildcat Marching Band is the marching band of the University of Kentucky, located in Lexington, Kentucky. The WMB performs at all UK home football games and selected away games, the WMBs repertoire ranges from contemporary jazz to classical favorites. Any UK student, regardless of major, is eligible for membership, the Wildcat Marching Band is directed by Scott-Lee Atchison. Scott-Lee Atchison is the Assistant Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Kentucky, prior to his appointment at the University of Kentucky, Atchison served as the Associate Director of Bands at Texas A&M University - Commerce. Atchison received a degree from the University of Tennessee and a bachelors degree in Music Education from the University of North Texas College of Music. He recently completed his residency at the University of Washington. Band rehearsals are scheduled on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5,00 pm to 7,00 pm at Stoll Field, Shively Field, rehearsals on home game days begin five hours before kickoff and last one to two hours. Game day rehearsals are held at Shively Field or, in case of bad weather, Marching Band, MUC190, earns one credit per fall semester, which may be used as an elective in any degree program. The Wildcat Marching Band also includes a few each year from Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Early Week, as UKs band camp is called, is held a week, new members and the student leadership begin a day before the rest of the returning members. The camp runs 9, 00am to 9, 00pm, with breaks for meals, time is divided between learning drill on Stoll Field and having indoor music rehearsals. By the end of Early Week, all members have learned their music and drill for Pre-game, the band provides three meals each day, and students living in residence halls are allowed to move in early. The band provides a pep band for every game and travels with the full band to one away game. Expenses such as lodging, transportation, and meals are provided by the University of Kentucky, there is no cost to the band members. Informally affiliated with training, the band existed by 1893. In 1903, Captain George Byroade, Commandant of the Military Science department, appointed Professor Rucker as band director, in the fall of 1920, Sgt. John J. Kennedy was hired as director, and under his direction the band became known as The Best Band in Dixie. In the late 1920s, Elmer Bromo Sulzer founded the all-female Co-Ed band, mr. W. Harry Clarke introduced many new things to the band